Your Morning: Venezuelan oil tanker seized

Updated: Dec 21, 2025 / 07:00 AM CST

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, center, walks with his staff prior to a ministerial lunch at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Defense Ministers’ Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Nov. 1, 2025.

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Hegseth hails new seizure of Venezuelan oil tanker

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks on Nov. 12, 2025, in Fort Wayne, Ind. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

16 Epstein files, including Trump photo, disappear from DOJ website: Report

Image from Jeffrey Epstein case files released by Democrat members of the House Oversight Committee on Dec. 19, 2025.

Majority say Trump’s Reiner posts ‘inappropriate’: Poll

Rob Reiner and wife Michele Singer — Director Rob Reiner (L) and wife Michele Singer on June 20, 2012, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images)

Brown University shooting tipster should get $50k reward: Mayor

Providence Mayor Brett Smiley sings "amazing grace" with community members at a gathering to honor the victims at Lippitt Memorial Park, a day after a shooting at Brown University campus. — Providence Mayor Brett Smiley at a gathering to honor Brown University shooting victims Dec. 14, 2025, in Providence, R.I. (Lily Speredelozzi/The Sun Chronicle via AP)

Trump endorses GOP’s Blakeman for NY governor after Stefanik exits race

U.S. President Donald Trump is greeted by Bruce Blakeman (L), County Executive of Nassau County, New York, on September 26, 2025 in Farmingdale, New York. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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